C#, NI Hardware, and Installers

[zenthoef]

I've been a LabVIEW developer for awhile now, and it is pretty clear that when I use NI's instrument drivers, runtime environment, etc... that the installers for that application can get pretty large. 

If I developed a program in C# that uses NI Hardware will the installers still be large or will they be cut down significantly?

[David22JRA · Accepted solution]

Hello Zenthoef

Actually the Runtime Engines are the same. Let me attach just an example below.

http://www.ni.com/download/ni-visa-run-time-engine/6647/en/ (Run time Engineen)

http://download.ni.com/support/softlib//visa/NI-VISA/17.0/Windows/readme.html (Readme)

As you can see the Readme file has a list of Microsoft Visual Studio Support for the VisaNS .NET Class Library also, the VISA Studio Versions.

I hope that helps

Regards